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Also remember, things are newsworthy because they're novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

US sees like 2 gun deaths per day

Are you sure about that? NYC alone has around 1 murder per day, and I'd assume that most are gun related.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am not sure at all. I might have been thinking of mass shootings instead :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on what you call a mass shooting. When we think "mass shooting", we're thinking of the Mother Jones sort in this pic.

https://imgur.com/2prD6rU

There are about 50,000 gun deaths in the US every year, same as vehicular deaths. About half the gun deaths are suicides. About none of the vehicle deaths are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like you're trying too hard to defend US gun culture here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

People absolutely gloss over how dangerous cars are. I'd love a big push towards trains in the coming decades.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anything I said untrue or biased?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not every place is a valid platform for gun defense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

2 per day? Crazy....

In 2023, the average number of people who died from gun violence in the United States each day was 118. This is based on the 43,163 people who died from gun-related injuries in 2023.

2 per day, what are they smoking.